Art

 Design Illustration #architecture #drawing #hotels #Kei Endo #watercolor August 29, 2023 Kate Mothes Imperial Hotel Toyko. All images © Kei Endo, shared with permission The finer points of key fobs, towels, and tea cups make their way into Kei Endo’s meticulously detailed floor plans of Japanese hotel rooms (previously). Carefully measured, the interior diagrams depict the furnishings, amenities, and …

Installed in the New Museum’s Fourth Floor gallery, “Mire Lee: Black Sun” will debut a new site-specific installation featuring an architectural environment, kinetic sculpture and fabric works. Composed of materials that include low-tech motors, pumping systems, steel rods, and PVC hoses filled with grease, glycerin, silicone, slip, and oil, Lee’s animatronic sculptures operate both like living organisms and biological machines. Drawing references …

On Monday, August 28, the United States Military Academy West Point campus hosted a much-anticipated unboxing event for a roughly 194-year-old time capsule that was discovered in the base of a monument earlier this year. The reveal was live-streamed on YouTube and attended by faculty members, cadets, and alumni from the academy as well as archaeologists, military historians, and staffers …

 Photography #birds #Brendan Burden #portraits August 29, 2023 Grace Ebert Jacobin pigeon. All images © Brendan Burden, shared with permission Often seen clambering for scraps on city streets, pigeons tend to be an overlooked and even despised species. The birds’ ubiquity in urban areas, and their colloquial characterization as “flying rats,” have given them a lackluster reputation that Brendan Burden …

“signals . . . here and there” marks the culmination of a journey that has unfolded throughout a six-month period and which featured 25 artists and collectives in dialogue with an experimental display structure. In the context of this final exhibition chapter, “here and there” evokes migratory movements, both historical and contemporary, within the context of Hong Kong’s transformation as …

Raychel Carrión, “Maykel Osorbo” (2022) (image courtesy the artist) Tania Bruguera, Coco Fusco, and Reynier Leyva Novo are among 23 leading Cuban and Cuban-American artists, scholars, and cultural workers who signed an open letter calling on the international art community to boycott and divest from cultural events sponsored by the Cuban government. The letter denounces the Cuban government’s failing economic …

 Design Photography #Aleia Murawski #dioramas #miniature #Sam Copeland #snails August 29, 2023 Grace Ebert All images © Aleia Murawski and Sam Copeland, shared with permission The minuscule worlds designed by Sam Copeland and Aleia Murawski (previously) are just like ours—only a little bit slimier. Creating small, nostalgic dioramas for the past few years, the pair has a robust collection …

“To tell a story with stone is to intensely inhabit the preposition with,” suggests Jeffrey Jerome Cohen in Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman.  “It is to move from solitary individualisations to ecosystems, environments, shared agencies, and companionate properties.” As purveyors of deep time, rocks and their mineral composites are hybrid storytellers. Their bodies reflect an ongoing geological process of becoming-with, making …

If you want to create art that truly connects with the viewer, a crucial component is communication. When we draw characters that are talking to each other, we open up a WORLD of storytelling. Two characters on a page might just be waiting for the bus, but draw them speaking and you massively increase what you can convey to the …

“Celestial dancer (Devata)” (mid-11th century), sandstone sculpture, linked to Subhash Kapoor and Art of the Past gallery (photo via Wikimedia Commons) Recently, it’s become more apparent that our museums and other institutional collections are overrun with looted antiquities and cultural objects of unknown provenance. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan came under increased scrutiny this year following the publication of …